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Great Zoom into New Orleans, LA: The Louisiana Superdome (b-roll)

by: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Publication date: 1/14/2003

Topics: Human geography, Physical geography, Zoom, What -- Earth, What -- Terra, What -- Landsat 7, Where -- Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Where -- Louisiana

Using data from different spacecraft and some powerful computer technology, visualizers at the Goddard Space Flight Center present you with a collection of American cities in a way you have never seen them before. Starting with our camera high above the Earth, we rush in towards the surface at what would be an impossible speed for any known vehicle. Passing though layers of atmosphere, the colors of our destinations shimmer with their own unique characteristics, and suddenly we find ourselves floating in virtual space just above the ground. This zoom was created to support a paper given at IEEE Vis 2002. Note: A zoom, purposefully showing the seams, space to the ground, using data from Terra-MODIS, Landsat-ETM+, and IKONOS, and ending at the Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. Animator: Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC), Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC), Marte Newcombe (GST), Michael Mangos (GST). Scientist: Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC). Platforms/Sensors/Data Sets: IKONOS, Landsat-7/ETM+, Terra/MODIS.